Social informatics in the information sciences: Current activities and emerging directions

Informing Science

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 88-95

  Sawyer, Steve ^a   Rosenbaum, Howard ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information sciences; Intellectual geography; Organizational informatics; Social informatics; Sociotechnical systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 52849140733     PISSN: 15214672     EISSN: 15214672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.28945/583     Document Type: Article

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